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2.14am BST

White House senior adviser Larry Kudlow praised Trump for acting “swiftly and effectively” to save the US economy amid the coronavirus pandemic.

Eerily referring to the pandemic as if it were over, Kudlow warned that Joe Biden’s economic policies would “pick the pockets of taxpayers and drain money from their wallets and purses.”

Larry Kudlow is out here making stuff up. This didn't happen. pic.twitter.com/sywd5yPI3v

2.05am BST

In his convention speech, Republican Senator Rand Paul sharply criticized Joe Biden for voting for the Iraq war, while praising Trump for opposing the war.

But as a CNN reporter noted, Trump initially supported the war but later became one of its critics more than a year after it began. Biden has also since said his vote for the war was a mistake.

Rand Paul is correct Biden voted for the Iraq War, but Paul's contrast with Trump, man who declared the war an awful mistake, is misleading: Trump tentatively supported the war before it happened, becoming an explicit opponent more than a year into it. https://t.co/rJIrsFNcAt

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